First serious illustration - Updated

    Hey everyone,

    I finally bought my Wacom. As it's really expensive where I live (about U$200 in "official" stores), I bought the simpler one: Bamboo MTE 450. I watched a bunch of DVDs from Ryan Church and Mark Goerner (Gnomon Workshop) and decided to try a more serious drawing. Here is the result:

    [Blocked Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/Fergo/barragem_final800.jpg]

    It took me about 5 hours, from start to finish (and my hand is kind of hurt now). I used Corel Painter X.

    For those who also have a wacom tablet: the tip of the pen starts wearing too fast? Min0 thinks I'm paranoid (), but the tip of the pen here is not round anymore as it was when I received the tablet, and It's only one week old. Is that common?

    Thanks!

    Fergo

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    For those who also have a wacom tablet: the tip of the pen starts wearing too fast? Min0 thinks I'm paranoid (), but the tip of the pen here is not round anymore as it was when I received the tablet, and It's only one week old. Is that common?

    I don't know how it is like with the Bamboo pen but I've got an Intuos 2 and it's aeons old (I think my brother has bought it back in 2001 or something) and the pen's fine.

    Thanks!

    I think I was pressing the pen higher than needed. I re-adjusted some sliders in the control panel and calibrated the pen again in Corel Painter. Now it seems fine.

    Fergo

    Good first attempt.

    Few things:

    - your perspective is a bit off, it morphs in the front

    - put some color in the shadows, some saturated blues and saturated purples

    - also i think if you image told some sort of a story, it would work alot better, right now its just a dam

    off to a good start i guess

    crtis:

    -spend more time with lighting rather than structure !

    -from this camera angel and assuming the water is perfectly level (water usually is) id expect the horizon line to be way further in the back (higher in screenspace)

    -tell a bit more of a story with this picture or show us something we havent seen before if this is supposed to be concept art why don't i just find a photograph from the hoover dam on goggle image search and use that instead ? think about that

    i think you are heading in a good direction ! keep on rocking

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